Best IDE Software in Africa
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Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) are software programs which provide an integrated environment for a programmer to develop their code. The IDEs usually provide tools such as a text editor, compiler, and debugger. They are designed to increase productivity by allowing programmers to work on multiple components of their project in the same environment. IDEs also typically offer features such as syntax highlighting, suggestions for identifiers, and auto-completion that aid in coding accuracy. Compare and read user reviews of the best IDE software in Africa currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Windsurf Editor
Windsurf
The Windsurf Editor is a free AI-powered IDE and AI coding assistant that accelerates development by providing intelligent code generation and agents in over 70 programming languages and more than 40 IDEs, including VSCode, JetBrains, and Jupyter Notebooks. With Windsurf, developers can write code faster, eliminate repetitive tasks, and stay in the flow state—whether they're working with Python, JavaScript, C++, or any other language. Built on billions of lines of open-source code, Windsurf Editor understands and anticipates your coding needs, offering multiline suggestions, automated unit tests, and even natural language explanations for complex functions. It’s perfect for streamlining code writing, reducing boilerplate, and cutting down the time spent on documentation searches. Trusted by individual developers and Fortune 500 companies alike, Windsurf Editor is your go-to solution for boosting productivity and writing better code. Try Windsurf for free today!Starting Price: Free -
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Linx
Twenty57
A powerful iPaaS platform for integration and business process automation. Linx is a powerful platform for building custom integrations at scale. The platform provides enterprise-grade capability and unparalleled flexibility to cater to a wide range of integration use cases for today’s growing businesses, including application integration, data synchronization, data migration, automations, and rapid API development and management. Linx is a low-code, desktop-based iPaaS that enables organizations to connect their cloud and on-premise applications, data sources.Starting Price: $599 per month -
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RadSystems
RadSystems
RadSystems is a robust integrated development environment tool and Low-code software that facilitates rapid application development process by reducing redundant coding time. RadSystems applications can be generated through ASP.NET Core, Python Flask, PHP Laravel, Node Express.js, Vue.js, and Quasar Framework. You can also build traditional or classic web applications using Bootstrap, jQuery, and Laravel. RadSystems Studio is a robust Low-code software that facilitates a rapid application development process by reducing redundant coding time. Through its complex engine algorithm, it is possible for an application to be generated in several programming languages from a single code base. You can publish your application to Classic Application, Single Page Application, Progressive Web Application, and Mobile Application with a single click.Starting Price: $298 -
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Android Studio
Android Studio
Android Studio provides the fastest tools for building apps on every type of Android device. Create complex layouts with ConstraintLayout by adding constraints from each view to other views and guidelines. Then preview your layout on any screen size by selecting one of various device configurations or by simply resizing the preview window. Find opportunities to reduce your Android app size by inspecting the contents of your app APK file, even if it wasn't built with Android Studio. Inspect the manifest file, resources, and DEX files. Compare two APKs to see how your app size changed between app versions. Install and run your apps faster than with a physical device and simulate different configurations and features, including ARCore, Google's platform for building augmented reality experiences. Write better code, work faster, and be more productive with an intelligent code editor that provides code completion for Kotlin, Java, and C/C++ languages. -
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Omnis Studio
Omnis Software Ltd
Omnis Studio is a cross platform application development environment. Omnis Studio allows application developers and programmers to write application code and business logic once, and deploy their applications on virtually any platform or device, including desktop PCs on Windows and macOS, as well as tablets and phones on iOS, Android and Windows. Support for a large range of client devices is enabled using the Omnis JavaScript Client, a unique JavaScript based technology for rendering the application UI and web forms in a standard web browser on desktops and mobile devices. The integration of data and services is available in Omnis Studio via REST based Web Services, and functionality can be extended within Omnis Studio by utilizing its powerful and flexible external components API. Omnis is headquartered in the UK and has subsidiaries in USA, France and Germany and distributors for many other parts of the world. -
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Thinfinity VirtualUI
Cybele Software, Inc
Thinfinity Virtual UI is a development platform that allows you to take any existing Desktop Application and publish it as a web solution. By adding a single line of code to any of your existing software, you will be enabling dual-platform functionality. Releasing a Windows application to the web has never been so easy. It really is that simple!!! Integrating with any language supporting Win32, GDI/GDI+ API, and ActiveX/COM, Thinfinity VirtualUI redirects Windows calls and drawing commands to the remote HTML5 canvas. -
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Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces
Red Hat
Built on the open Eclipse Che project, Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces uses Kubernetes and containers to provide any member of the development or IT team with a consistent, secure, and zero-configuration development environment. The experience is as fast and familiar as an integrated development environment on your laptop. OpenShift Dev Spaces is included with your OpenShift subscription and is available in the Operator Hub. It provides development teams a faster and more reliable foundation on which to work, and it gives operations centralized control and peace of mind. Get coding today with our free Developer Sandbox for Red Hat OpenShift, which includes OpenShift Dev Spaces to try out at no cost. Developers can focus more on coding, with their application and development environment containerized and running on OpenShift - all without needing to understand the details of Kubernetes. Administrators can easily manage and monitor workspaces as any other Kubernetes resource.Starting Price: $30 per month -
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Delphi
Embarcadero
Delphi is the ultimate IDE for creating cross-platform, natively compiled apps. Are you ready to design the best UIs of your life? Our award winning VCL framework for Windows and FireMonkey (FMX) visual framework for cross-platform UIs provide you with the foundation for intuitive, beautiful user interfaces that wow on every platform: Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. Design your master UI layout once, then easily customize platform- and device-specific views without duplication of design effort. Drag-and-drop visual and non-visual components from the palette using our visual designer. Visually connect user interface elements to data sources using the LiveBindings Designer. Real-time design validation using Live On-Device Preview to broadcast the active form to multiple devices simultaneously. Add responsive design with resolution-aware components for desktop, tablets, and smartphones. Real, platform-specific native controls for an improved user experience. -
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C++Builder
Embarcadero
C++Builder is a fast, integrated design and development suite for modern apps. Are you ready to design the best UIs of your life? Our award winning VCL framework for Windows and FireMonkey (FMX) visual framework for cross-platform UIs provide you with the foundation for intuitive, beautiful user interfaces that wow on every platform: Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. Design your master UI layout once, then easily customize platform- and device-specific views without duplication of design effort. Drag-and-drop visual and non-visual components from the palette using our visual designer. Visually connect user interface elements to data sources using the LiveBindings Designer. Real-time design validation using Live On-Device Preview to broadcast the active form to multiple devices simultaneously. Add responsive design with resolution-aware components for desktop, tablets, and smartphones. Real, platform-specific native controls for an improved user experience. -
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Oracle SQL Developer
Oracle
Oracle SQL Developer is a free, integrated development environment that simplifies the development and management of Oracle Database in both traditional and Cloud deployments. SQL Developer offers complete end-to-end development of your PL/SQL applications, a worksheet for running queries and scripts, a DBA console for managing the database, a reports interface, a complete data modeling solution, and a migration platform for moving your 3rd party databases to Oracle. Run your sql and sql scripts, manage users, create and edit objects, import data to new or existing tables, diagnose performance issues, visualize your schemas, and much more. The power of your favorite desktop tool, in your browser. Available with Oracle REST Data Services for your on-premises instances. Migrate Oracle On-Premises to Oracle Cloud. Click, browse, and managed the contents of your Oracle Database. -
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Scriptcase
Netmake
An efficient web development low-code platform. It helps you to create complete web systems and Business Intelligence solutions fast and easy! Scriptcase enables you to design, develop and elegant, responsive, database-driven applications using only your web browser. A powerful PHP generator for you to develop fast, simple, secure at a low cost. Connect with your database (MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Interbase, SQL Azure, Amazon Aurora, Firebird, Access, Oracle, MS SQLServer, DB2, SyBase, Informix or ODBC layer) and generate web applications based on your tables, simply and safely. Make the data access and maintenance an uncomplicated step! Scriptcase offers an XLS, CSV and ACCESS spreadsheet import and conversion features for the databases supported by Scriptcase. With this import tool you can easily transform your spreadsheets into system applications.Starting Price: $349 -
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Aqua Data Studio
AquaFold, an Idera, Inc. company
Aqua Data Studio is a multiple-platform, integrated development environment (IDE) for data. It provides benefits to a variety of data-centric roles, allowing them to manage a wide range of data sources. Aqua Data Studio provides scalable, cross-platform data management, supporting IT and data-centric specialists, including developers, database administrators, as well as data analysts, data modelers, and data architects. Simplifies tedious tasks involving SQL queries, data, result sets, schema, data models, files, instances, servers, as well as automation. Aqua Data Studio can be installed on the three popular operating systems: Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS, and Linux. The graphical user interface can display the nine of the most widely spoken languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Korean, Portuguese, Japanese, and Chinese. Aqua Data Studio supports over 40 of the most popular data source platforms, including relational, NoSQL, as well as managed cloud data sourceStarting Price: $499 per user per year -
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Rider
JetBrains
Fast & powerful, cross-platform .NET IDE, develop .NET, ASP.NET, .NET Core, Xamarin or Unity applications on Windows, Mac, Linux. JetBrains Rider is a cross-platform .NET IDE based on the IntelliJ platform and ReSharper. Rider supports .NET Framework, the new cross-platform .NET Core, and Mono based projects. This lets you develop a wide range of applications including .NET desktop applications, services and libraries, Unity games, Xamarin apps, ASP.NET, and ASP.NET Core web applications. Rider provides 2200+ live code inspections, hundreds of context actions and refactorings brought by ReSharper, and combines them with the IntelliJ platform's solid IDE features. Despite a heavy feature set, Rider is designed to be fast and responsive. As well as running and debugging multiple runtimes, Rider itself runs on multiple platforms, Windows, macOS, and Linux. Most of ReSharper's 60+ refactorings are already available in Rider, and its 450+ context actions are all there.Starting Price: $11.58 per month -
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GeneXus
Globant
Simplify and Automate Software Development with GeneXus GeneXus is a Low-Code Platform powered by AI that simplifies and automates software creation. By modeling instead of coding, it generates complete solutions—from user interfaces to backends—faster and with less complexity. With 35+ years of experience, GeneXus helps enterprises build scalable, AI-driven systems, modernize legacy software, and adapt to new technologies without rework. It supports development across web, mobile, and desktop platforms, seamlessly integrating databases, APIs, and enterprise systems. Trusted in over 50 countries, GeneXus is a leader in the low-code market.Starting Price: $0 -
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RubyMotion
Scratchwork Development LLC
RubyMotion lets you quickly develop cross-platform native apps for iOS, Android and OS X, all using your favorite editor and the awesome Ruby language you know and love. RubyMotion features a statically-compiled version of the Ruby language designed for native mobile platforms, as well as a command-line based extensible toolchain that will let you easily customize your development workflow just the way you like it. Thanks to RubyMotion, your Ruby developers can write iOS and Android apps, today. Ruby makes programmers happy and productive, and by sharing the same language across platforms you get to reuse code, save time, and ship faster.Starting Price: Free -
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Shells
Shells
Shells provides you with a 1-click, powerful virtual desktop environment, driven by a cloud computer, without leaving your browser! It's your personal workspace in the cloud. Shells are virtual desktop cloud computers. Access Shells with any web-enabled device. Shells gives you the cloud for your computer! Shells are Intel powered cloud computers that are always on, just like a desktop computer. Additionally, you’ll never miss anything with push notifications! The one-device-life has arrived! Run full desktop software, including but not limited to desktop grade browsers, desktop grade office applications, and even software development, music and media production applications and much more! Shells lets you run multiple apps at the same time and position them however you want. There are no rules or restrictions here! Run anything you want, anywhere you want, in any way you want!Starting Price: $4.95 per month -
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Storyboard
Crank AMETEK
Storyboard is an embedded GUI development framework that accelerates the design and delivery of modern UX for tomorrow’s IoT and wearable devices. With its Rapid Design Import and Iteration Technology, embedded developers around the world are able to create products that offer unmatched GUI experiences (graphics, voice, and audio), uniquely optimized for all operating systems and platforms, including resource-constrained MCU and MPU platforms. Storyboard aligns embedded developers with the iterative change processes of designers — using popular tools like Sketch and Photoshop — helping manufacturers achieve high-quality UX without sacrificing performance or development time. With only a few mouse clicks, developers use Storyboard to visualize changed assets and rapidly assess, accept, or reject elements in a timesaving manner. This accelerated workflow allows teams to refine their products at any stage in their development cycle. -
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Qt Creator
Qt Group
Qt Creator's advanced code editor lets you code in C++, QML, JavaScript, Python and other languages. It features code completion, syntax highlighting, refactoring and has built-in documentation at your fingertips. Qt Creator integrates with most popular version control systems, including Git, subversion, perforce, and mercurial. Integrated visual editors for building C++ widget-based applications or fluid Qt Quick-based animated UIs with ready-made controls. Import an existing project or create one from scratch – Qt Creator generates all the necessary files. Support for Cmake and cross-compiling with qmake is included. Build for and run your software on desktop, mobile and embedded operating systems. The build settings allow you to easily switch between targets. Test and debug applications in conditions practically identical to those on your target device.Starting Price: $83 per month -
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Coder
Coder
Coder is the AI software development company leading the future of autonomous coding. We empower teams to build software faster, more securely, and at scale through the collaboration of AI coding agents and human developers. Our mission is to make agentic AI a safe, trusted, and integral part of every software development lifecycle. Coder’s self-hosted Cloud Development Environment (CDE) is the foundation for deploying agentic AI in the enterprise. It provides a secure, standardized, and governed workspace to deploy autonomous coding agents alongside human developers, accelerating innovation while maintaining control and compliance. Coder's isolated, policy-driven environments improve productivity, cut cloud costs, and reduce data risks. Developers transition to AI at their own pace using their own tools. Platform and security teams can govern, audit, and manage a great developer experience at scale. -
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Superblocks
Superblocks
Superblocks is a programmable IDE for developers to build any internal app, workflow, or scheduled job at a fraction of the time and cost. Ship next month's roadmap this week. Quickly build apps, workflows & jobs connected to your data. Secure with granular permissions (RBAC), SSO, audit logs, and secret management in seconds. Deploy with Git and monitor production. Extend anything with code. No need to learn React, HTML, or CSS. Drag and drop components, connect them to data and make your app dynamic by triggering APIs. Build custom KYC, Compliance, AML, and credit approval tools to enable robust support processes to increase the velocity of your support team. Stop wrestling with CLIs. Quickly build admin panels for your datastores to read, write, and update your customer data with tables, forms, and charts. Clark is an AI-powered app builder that helps teams quickly create secure internal enterprise applications using their own design systems, permissions, and integrations.Starting Price: $0 per month -
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Daytona
Daytona
Daytona is a cloud-native development runtime that enables developers and AI agents to instantly create, run, and manage isolated sandboxes for any codebase. Each sandbox runs inside a secure microVM with full Linux compatibility, networking, and persistent storage. Daytona provides SDKs in Python and TypeScript, allowing applications to programmatically execute code, run processes, upload files, or spin up environments dynamically. Teams use Daytona to replace complex local setups with reproducible cloud sandboxes that can be started in seconds and accessed through preview URLs, SSH, or APIs. It’s built for automation, observability, and scalability, powering everything from personal development environments to enterprise-grade agent runtimes. -
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Athina AI
Athina AI
Athina is a collaborative AI development platform that enables teams to build, test, and monitor AI applications efficiently. It offers features such as prompt management, evaluation tools, dataset handling, and observability, all designed to streamline the development of reliable AI systems. Athina supports integration with various models and services, including custom models, and ensures data privacy through fine-grained access controls and self-hosted deployment options. The platform is SOC-2 Type 2 compliant, providing a secure environment for AI development. Athina's user-friendly interface allows both technical and non-technical team members to collaborate effectively, accelerating the deployment of AI features.Starting Price: Free -
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SWE-Kit
Composio
SweKit let’s you build PR agents to review code, suggest improvements, enforce coding standards, identify potential issues, automate merge approvals, and provide feedback on best practices, streamlining the review process and enhancing code quality. Automate writing new features, debug complex issues, create and run tests, optimize code for performance, refactor for maintainability, and ensure best practices across the codebase, accelerating development and efficiency. Use highly optimized code analysis, advanced code indexing, and intelligent file navigation tools to explore and interact with large codebases effortlessly. Ask questions, trace dependencies, uncover logic flows, and gain instant insights, enabling seamless communication with complex code structures. Keep your documentation in sync with your code. Automatically update Mintlify documentation whenever changes are made to the codebase, ensuring that your docs stay accurate, up-to-date, and ready for your team and users.Starting Price: $49 per month -
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Google Cloud Code
Google
Cloud Code is a set of AI-assisted IDE plugins for popular IDEs that make it easier to create, deploy, and integrate applications with Google Cloud. Duet AI is integrated with Cloud Code, providing AI assistance directly in your IDE. Cloud Code supports your favorite IDEs, including VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, Cloud Workstations, and Cloud Shell Editor. It brings Duet AI inside your favorite IDEs, speeds up your GKE and Cloud Run development with Skaffold integration, simplifies creating configuration files for Google Cloud services and technologies, and makes it easy to integrate Cloud APIs and work with Google Cloud services within your IDE. Duet AI, your AI-powered collaborator, is available across Google Cloud and your IDE to help you get more done, faster. Cloud Code allows you to easily test and debug apps on Google Cloud directly from your IDE, supporting workloads including Compute Engine, GKE, and Serverless.Starting Price: Free -
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WebContainers
WebContainers
WebContainers, developed by StackBlitz, are a browser-based runtime environment that enables the execution of Node.js applications and operating system commands directly within a web browser tab. This technology allows developers to build instant, interactive coding experiences, from tutorials to full-fledged integrated development environments, without the need for local setups or cloud-based virtual machines. By running entirely client-side, WebContainers offer unmatched user experiences with zero latency, offline capabilities, and enhanced security, as they eliminate the risks associated with server-side code execution. They support native Node.js toolchains, including npm, pnpm, and yarn, and are compatible with major modern frameworks. Additionally, WebContainers facilitate the running of WebAssembly (Wasm) out of the box, allowing for the porting of various languages and frameworks to the browser environment.Starting Price: $18 per month -
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Koding
Koding
Koding lets your organization create and share fully automated dev environments on any infrastructure for modern distributed applications, micro-services and containers. Koding provides an interface for developers and team managers to streamline dev workflows in the cloud without slowing down freedom and creativity. Spend less time configuring and more time building! Your entire team can share and collaborate on not only on your code, but also your dev environment. No more screen sharing. You can share dev environments in real-time, or leave it open for the whole team. For the first time, your team can locate the inefficiencies in their workflow, so that they can prioritize and fix them. A company with 1000s of developers waste at least a quarter of their year on configuring dev environments. Koding gives the time back to you.Starting Price: $9 per user per month -
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Meya
Meya.ai
Accelerate your roadmap. Get to market faster and stay at the forefront of the cognitive revolution. Unlock each developer’s potential with cutting edge technology. A good tech stack starts with a solid foundation. With Meya, your cognitive apps run in a modern computing environment, that is performant, secure, compliant and easily managed. Our team is continually updating our framework to take advantage of the latest in artificial intelligence research. Focus on building a great user experience while we ensure your cognitive app’s hosting, integrations, and more! Build, host, and train your cognitive application in one place. Easily scale your bot and take advantage of the most popular messaging and customer support platforms. Handle any complex use case by connecting to your business back end. Stay focused on the user experience and let us take care of the rest. -
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Eclipse Theia
Eclipse Foundation
Eclipse Theia is an extensible platform to develop multi-language Cloud & Desktop IDEs with state-of-the-art web technologies. Not sure whether you need a web or desktop version or both? With Theia you can develop one IDE and run it in browsers or native desktop application from a single source. The Theia project is hosted at the Eclipse Foundation, a not-for-profit corporation, and is developed by a diverse community. Unlike other "open-source" projects, projects hosted at an Open-Source Foundation are protected against single-vendor decisions against the interest of the diverse community. Theia is designed in a modular way to allow extenders and adopters customizing and extending every aspect of it. Composing a custom IDE-like product is as easy as listing all needed extensions in a package.json file. Adding new functionality by implementing your own extensions is easy, too and provides all the flexibility you need.Starting Price: $0 -
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IAR Embedded Workbench
IAR Systems
Complete development environment for Arm, generating fast, compact code and enabling you to take full control of your code. One Integrated Development Environment with project management tools and editor. Included is 8,400 example projects containing configuration files, code examples and project templates, giving every project a quick start. The IAR C/C++ Compiler is built by our compiler experts and supports C and C++. It offers advanced global and target-specific optimizations, and supports a wide range of industry-standard debug and image formats, compatible with most popular debuggers and emulators, including ELF/DWARF where applicable. Coupled with the complete linker and assembler, it enables powerful building of embedded applications. Support for all 32-bit Arm core from all major vendors and selected 64-bit Arm cores. Our tools are available in a flexible license model to suit your company needs. -
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Raftt
Raftt
Raftt saves you from the frustrations of configuring, maintaining, and sharing development environments on your local machine. Containers were designed to simplify production, not development. So even if you get past the pain-to-deal-with drift and decay in your local env — you still spend hours working out what’s going on. With Raftt’s platform, you can spawn an unlimited number of consistent remote envs to run your code. Without losing the feeling of local development with your existing workflows and IDEs. With Raftt, you can share a URL to your remote dev env with your teammates. So you can collaborate and debug together in real-time. Your product lead can always access the link — even after you’ve switched to work on a different feature. Raftt lets you interactively debug containers inside your IDE by changing the nature of how they work. And now, when your container’s main process dies, the container doesn’t capsize with it.